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Plan to allow rifle hunting stalled in Albany
Plan to allow rifle hunting stalled in Albany -- Assemblyman Daniel Burling is reminding deer hunters that using rifles remains illegal for now in Wyoming County. A proposal to allow rifle hunting in the county has stalled at the state level. The State Assembly...
Drunk and packing heat? You’ll be arrested, that is unless you’re a cop
Drunk and packing heat? You'll be arrested, that is unless you're a cop -- It could soon be a crime to get drunk while packing heat - unless you're a cop. A bill aired at a City Council hearing Wednesday would subject licensed gun owners to a possible year in jail and...
PRGC Youth Day
Pearl River Gun Club Annual Youth Day, Sept. 26 at Anderson Field in Orangeberg. Free admission and free events. Hands-on rifle & shotgun plus blackpowder demos.
Area fundraisers bring sportsmen together
Area fundraisers bring sportsmen together -- Considering the state of the economy, who would have thought Saturday’s 16th annual Columbia-Greene Friends of NRA fundraiser dinner and auction at Kozels Restaurant in Ghent would have surpassed last year’s event in both...
DA ‘guns’ for the little guy
DA 'guns' for the little guy -- Half of the gun scofflaws caught packing heat illegally in the city wriggle out of jail sentences or do only minimal time, despite a get-tough law that's supposed to send them to prison for at least 3½ years. That's according to legal...
Governor Paterson and Congresswoman McCarthy Announce Federal Grant to Enhance Public Safety
Governor Paterson and Congresswoman McCarthy Announce Federal Grant to Enhance Public Safety -- Governor David A. Paterson and Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy announced today that New York State will receive nearly $6 million in Federal funds to improve access to...
5th A.D Democratic rivals clash on gun laws
5th A.D.: Democratic rivals clash on gun laws -- In the Democratic primary in Suffolk's 5th A.D., challenger Kenneth Mangan is looking to make an issue of Assemb. Ginny Fields’ stances on weapons. Fields (D-Oakdale) has been endorsed by the New York Rifle & Pistol...
Vote against Breslin
Vote against Breslin -- Here’s a bit of a brain-bender from the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association: The group’s PAC, the New York State Rifle and Pistol Association Political Victory Fund, has dispatched postcards in Albany County urging voters to vote...
Attorney general candidate targets guns
Attorney general candidate targets guns -- State attorney general candidate Eric Schneiderman’s “Justice on Main Street” slogan seemed eerily relevant Sunday as he spoke about gun violence to a crowd on Buffalo’s East Side. Just three weeks after the City Grill...
More state gun laws?
More state gun laws? -- There's an idiot named Eric Schneiderman running in the race for state Attorney General this fall. He thinks the reason there's so much gun violence in Niagara Falls, Buffalo and New York City is that the state's gun laws aren't strong enough.